Highlands man jailed after fatal shooting at his home

By Carol Christian

Updated 11:18 am, Saturday, July 27, 2013

An east Harris County man who confessed to planting a knife next to a woman he had fatally shot has been arrested, authorities said.

Charles Ivey, 32, was arrested early Saturday in the death of Donna Schumaker, 41, and remains in the Harris County Jail, according to a news release from the county sheriff's office.

The shooting happened about 1 a.m. Saturday at Ivey's home in the 300 block of Greenbow Lane in Highlands, the release said.

Schumaker was at Ivey's residence with a friend, who was picking up some personal items, the release said.

When Schumaker and Ivey got into an argument, he shot her once with a shotgun, killing her, the release said.

Ivey initially told investigators that Schumaker attacked him with a knife and that he defended himself. But after investigators interviewed several witnesses and questioned Ivey further at the station, he confessed to shooting Schumaker and throwing a knife next to her body to make it look like self-defense, the release said.